ron kessler said the white house did learn about this months ago and it is over. is he one bob baier and many others saying there is more here than sex. we will find out in the week or weeks ahead. >> do you know what it's going to do? make all these other media outletst start talking about benghazi. you can't ignore it anymore. >> some people think that this helps to gloss over whatever went wrong at benghazi and why they tried to, if they, in fact, tried to cover up the fact that this is a terror attack. but to your point charles krauthammer agrees that maybe now that this involves an affair the media will fixate on benghazi more. >> there is no way that it this is going to get in the way of the benghazi story coming out. and in an odd way and sort of discouraging way, now that the story is attached to a sex scandal, it will become a story that will be pursued by the media as not pursued before. they were holding off, i think to protect obama before and also out of a lack of interest. just given the nature of our journalism, it will now become the hottest story